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Article: Album Review

Maroney / Ilgenfritz / Niescier / Drury: Mind Games

Read "Mind Games" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 16, 2012

This quartet blurs the borders between orthodox and unorthodox forms of playing, between cerebral, intriguing music making and playful, harmonic articulations, and between sonic explorations of timbral variations, colors and shades, and organic, fluid textures. All these contradictions are blended into a mysterious kaleidoscope of nuanced details, a musical universe of a unique quartet with a ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Nicole Mitchell: Arc Of O

by John Sharpe
November 16, 2012

Nicole MitchellArc Of ORogue Art2012Subtitled “for improvisers, chamber orchestra and electronics," flutist Nicole Mitchell's genre-busting Arc Of O resonates a little with the almost forgotten Third Stream. Coined by composer/educator Gunther Schuller as a term for a synthesis of classical music and jazz at the end of the ...

Article: Album Review

Angelica Sanchez Quintet: Wires & Moss

Read "Wires & Moss" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
November 16, 2012

Perceptive composer and cunning improviser, educator/keyboardist Angelica Sanchez has risen to the A-list of modern stylists and innovators. As history dictates, she largely summons the crème-de-la-crème of like-minded artists for her solo endeavors. Indeed, Sanchez's burgeoning discography for Clean-Feed records bears witness to her resourceful persona. On Wires & Moss, she traverses a route initiated upon ...

News: Recording

Matchless Vocalist Kaylé Brecher Treads New Ground On Her Fifth Album, 'spirals And Lines'

November 16, 2012

"Kaylé Brecher is an individualist artist, a one of a kind, and she manages to perform her art and make it very approachable for the listener. Recommended." —John Peters, The Borderland “A little Carla Bley meets the Saturday Night Live Band is the underpinning that makes this set fire on all of its cylinders. Wild stuff ...

News: Contest

Enter the "George Cables - My Muse" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

November 16, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the HighNote Records “George Cables - My Muse“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 16th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of George Cables at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck!

News: Radio

This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: Gary Giddins On Louis & Bing

November 15, 2012

Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong struck up a friendship in the 1920s that flourished as they worked together—for almost half a century—on stage, in movies, and on radio and TV. This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Gary Giddins, author of Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams-the Early Years, 1903-1940 shares a look into the friendship between Bing ...

Article: Album Review

Deborah Shulman / Larry Zalkind: Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Bernstein, Weill & Sondheim

Read "Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Bernstein, Weill & Sondheim" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 15, 2012

The respective output from compositional icons Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill and, to a lesser extent, Stephen Sondheim has frequently been putty in jazz musicians' and arrangers' hands, proving that malleability is a sine qua non for long-range success in writing; genius-level composing skills, of course, also tend to help. While the actual act ...

Article: On and Off the Grid

Goodbye Borah

by Dom Minasi
November 15, 2012

Up until eleven years ago I had never heard of Borah Bergman. Priding myself on being aware of many of the avant players and being a devout fan of pianist Cecil Taylor, I should have known about Borah, but I didn't.Many of my early public performing years were devoted to playing straight-ahead and then ...

Article: Profile

Nick Waterhouse: In The Nick of Time

by John Coltelli
November 15, 2012

A young rocker out and about in Los Angeles at 10 am may be an odd sighting, akin perhaps to seeing a polar bear in the sweaty Congo, but nevertheless here is 25 year old Nick Waterhouse, approaching a downtown diner on a sunny weekday morning to discuss his new album, Time's All Gone (Innovative Leisure, ...

News: Event

Columbus Jazz Orchestra And Marva Hicks Reunite For "Home For The Holidays" (Nov. 29-Dec. 2)

November 15, 2012

Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) returns to the historic Southern Theatre to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year in “Home for the Holidays," November 29 – December 2. Broadway vocal sensation Marva Hicks makes a special return engagement to Columbus for the annual holiday spectacular. Each year promises a ...